Seemingly desperate to find a spark, Billy Donovan turned to an unlikely source during the first quarter of the Thunder’s 97-81 loss to the Mavericks in Dallas on Saturday: rookie Terrance Ferguson.

Ferguson surprisingly checked in during the game’s first quarter and ended up playing 21 minutes, a season-high. Unfortunately, his seven points (which was a season high, as well) weren’t enough to help the Thunder walk away with a win, but his early insertion yields one reasonable conclusion: Billy Donovan is beginning to reach.

Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A losing team should try new things, after all, it’s just pretty interesting when taken in combination with the below tweet:

Terrance Ferguson still has a bit of a black eye and Nick Collison has a scratch under one eye. Both, Ferguson said, are the result of the Thunder’s 3-on-3 games.